#Slings and Arrows

[murderousthighs]

Anyone watching Etoile and enjoying it’s humour, the insight into the chaos of company life and the struggles of making art profitable enough to produce more art would probably really like a 20 year old show called Slings and Arrows which also stars Luke Kirby(also Rachel McAdams and Paul Gross) but is about a Shakespearean Theatre Company in a small tourist town in Ontario Canada

[variousqueerthings]

geoffrey offending the ghost of his ex-best-friend-secretly-in-love-with-him-turned-antagonistic-after-sleeping-with-his-girlfriend-although-oliver-wishes-they'd-been-a-thrupple-died-before-the-three-of-them-could-make-up-it's-complicated by refusing to allow him to be a part of the creative process, because everybody already thinks he's too crazy to work functionally and also because he's mad at him for always being so overbearing

and they're doing macbeth, of course

[legobiwan]

Do you like Shakespeare? Poignant reflections on the role of art in our lives and society? Looking for commentary on the business of arts nonprofit organizations, particularly theater? Are you into madcap, existentialist humor? Do you know who Paul Gross is?

Watch Slings and Arrows. I'm begging you.

[joehills]

Some people might not see a marketing value for established brands making pinball machines these days, but the Toy Story 4 pinball machine is the only reason I knew there was a fourth Toy Story.

Also, I learned a lot from Craig Bobby’s The Pinball Show report on the new Abba pinball machine about the band Abba, which is it turns out is not just the Canadian equivalent of Billy Joel.

[kuwdora]

Anytime I see people talking about canon and fan fiction and all the discourse that happens therein, my brain always goes back to this line from Slings and Arrows. It’s been living in my head rent free for nearly 20 years.

Geoffrey Tennant is standing in front of a workshop class full of corporate middle management people who tell him they’re at the workshop to learn communication skills and management styles by learning about the works of Shakespeare. And they’re all just very cut and dry business folk who are there and are gonna Learn a Thing. Geoffrey basically waves the class’s notions aside and says: “Let’s fuck around with some text.”

I love that line. I think about that line a lot when I think about fandom. Taking canon and finding our own way to play and fuck around with it. Search for profound truths about a character. And the horny. The silliness and fun. Explore the new and process trauma or share joy with fic or art or vids. Going in completely different direction from canon because we’re in so deep and are possessed and that’s where the stories and the fanon has carried us.

Let’s fuck around with some text. It’s so good.

[hwaetnot]

Slings & Arrows — Season 2, "Fallow Time"

[eaion]

"And I love you both very much. More than I love myself, which is saying a lot, believe me."

Slings & Arrows S01E01 - Oliver's Dream

for @paulgrossaddict :)

[duesouthbigbang]

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[cinemaocd]

I'm used to being hated. That's my thing. But I can't function as a director unless that hatred is kept in check by a thin, calculated veneer of invulnerability.

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️

[irate-iguana]

His swishy black coat, proclivity for quoting Shakespeare, and questionable grasp on sanity have captivated me.

[owlpuddle]

Nobody on nobody's side or whatever, idk, I haven't seen Chess

[variousqueerthings]

important context: the man sitting down is a ghost who used to be into the man with the erectile dysfunction (and probably still is, if he's not a figment of the latter man's imagination)

[all-action-all-picture]

The Slings & Arrows Comic Guide - A Critical Assessment of over 2,500 titles. Edited by Frank Plowright and first published in 1997. Over 600 pages of reviews and analysis of each main US comic title. Some titles only take up a short paragraph while others, like Batman, run to 3 pages. Cover by Frank Quitely.

[wolf-twenty-one]

Ophelia is a child. She has been dominated by powerful men all her life, and suddenly they disappear. Her brother goes to France. Her father is murdered by her boyfriend, and he is shipped off to England. She is alone, for the first time: grieving and heartbroken and guilty, because, as far as she’s concerned, it’s all her fault. She ignored her brother’s advice and fell in love with Hamlet and now her father is dead, all because of her. And the pain, and the loss, and the shame, and the guilt–all of this is gnawing away inside this little child’s mind. And it comes out as… little songs. And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no. He is dead. My father is dead, and I killed him.

—Slings and Arrows (2003-2006)

[lamentable-comedy]

geoffrey tennant made some excellent points when he casually chewed on a razor blade, actually